Healing in the Wake of Roe V. Wade w/ Dr. Gerry Crete

I'll talk with psychotherapist Dr. Gerry Crete about how we can heal after 50 years of the abortion holocaust.

00:00 Start
2:57 Intransigent people
4:23 Post-modernism and truth
9:22 Emotional appeal
12:06 Pro-life feminist
14:54 Connected sex
19:57 Healing the heart
26:44 Addressing the underlying wound
30:12 Rachel’s vineyard
33:06 Parts work therapy (Ego states)
1:03:12 Souls and hearts (Catholic mental health program)
1:07:09 Trauma and moral injury (Start of Q&A)
1:10:20 Online dialogue (get to know the persons story to offer sincere compassion)
1:13:19 Dealing with professional conflict
1:25:05 Announcements
1:29:51 Recollected self podcast
1:31:21 Approach to surviving in secular education
1:33:26 Other questions
1:36:50-1:53:50 Time of prayer (litanies)
1:44:53 Hollow men
1:57:58 St. Thérèse of Lisieux on the good news of God’s mercy (and confession)
1:59:29 Mother Theresa
2:01:42 Wrap-up

[SBL]

Thank you! I took a Forgiveness course a few months ago and Dr. Crete took part in one of the lessons! It’s amazing how God keeps me connected to the righteous! God bless you Matt, and Dr. Crete and the whole world!

[mbolton]

I am starting a 40 day fast today for the conversion and healing of pro-abortionists. I feel strongly that this battle also has to be fought on a spiritual level. I believe there is something demonic surrounding people who support abortion.

[Magdalena]

I'm going to pray the rosary every Monday, as long as I can, the joyful misteries:
- to ask for forgiveness that the evil of abortion took place all over the world
- to be thankful that there are many people who fight for the babies to be born and support their mothers and that the law can protect life, now also in many states of America as well
- and to ask for the change in human hearts, so that people perceive babies not as a burden, and for the end of sexual revolution.

[samsamsamm]

At last in the debate a voice that speaks with respect for the people who have made bad choices and subsequently suffered - without succumbing to calling emotionally charged reactions by pro choice as 'insane'!

[chadchandler]

"Reproductive rights have nothing to do with abortion since reproduction already occurred"
WOW my thoughts exactly, I was going insane since no one seem to notice so thank you for voicing reason.

[joelwiemken]

Very Good Discussion Matt and Dr. Crete. Thank You

[nathanielodell]

Matt,
I've been a little worried for you ever since your interview with Dr. Morse. From that interview up until what you said to close out these beautiful litanies, you seemed to have crossed that delicate line between hating the sin NOT the sinner. I truly believe that you are a good man earnestly striving for holiness, but your hardness of heart was beginning to give me pause. I pray that you will continue to pray for the Holy Spirit to guide you on your important journey of speaking the truth to the world IN LOVE. May God continue to bless you, your ministry, and your family. Thank you for what you do, Matt

[caterinadc]

Within the first 3 minutes, Matt mentioned the TV show 'F.R.I.E.N.D.S'... and it almost feels too stupid to admit to, but I think growing up with that show had a severely distorting effect on my developing worldview. Like, I _genuinely_ believed, for years and years, that casual sex with an unrestricted number of dating prospects was the default norm that _everybody_ was engaged in. It made me feel like when I became sexually active, all my choices were still 'more restrained' than average, even though I may have actually been less restrained than average.

I grew up non-religious and I get how the following statement may sound 'extreme' to people with the same mindset I used to have... but I would now never let a kid watch the stuff I grew up watching. Not now that I know better. Kids can't tell the difference between fantasy and reality the way adults sometimes think they can; they lack the frame of reference. And we owe it to kids to feed their minds with what will be healthy for them, not what will lead them down an unhealthy path without them even realizing.

[mbolton]

This was a beautiful show. I saw the light and love of Christ shining through in both of you gentlemen. It brought me to tears.

[paulaaracena-sherck]

I think the best way to go from now on is prayer during Adoration time, plus fasting on Adoration day (even half a day is a good thing), to make it more powerful.
Fatima reparation prayer chaplets! Lots of them.

[laughingltus]

I came for the conversation and am blown away by Gerry’s understanding and use of secular modalities in a Christian way. I wish my therapist knew these things!

[WilsonAcres]

Thank you for Dr. Crete and other therapists with such deep grace and compassion in their hearts and the courage to wade through the deepest darkest things we go through. Matt, I so relate to your style of needing strong verbal and physical boundaries about right and wrong and I think that is an amazing masculine fatherly intuition that you have. I think both of you are so crucial to the Kingdom. I am edified by this interview.

[sandysauer]

Wow such a packed show. I'm printing the litanies, so powerful. I'm going on a silent retreat and will bring these with me. We all need healing and to work on forgiveness in our lives. Thank you ❤️

[margokupelian]

I come from a very conservative family growing up in the Middle East where having sex or losing your virginity before marriage was totally unacceptable. Here, during your discussion you’re talking about responsibility and conscientiousness about having sex, but the truth is sex is a very much accepted, a very common and “normal” thing in this culture. People have sex for PURE pleasure without thinking about the consequences bc they think they can always have an abortion when the sex results in pregnancy with no sense of guilt.
The moral standards are very flawed in this country and need to be changed or at least modified not by the government (they are the ones who have created this culture) but by the Church...
So, banning abortion is like cleaning a small area of a vast wasteland full of litter. I know God has His own plans for the clean up… with the Holy Spirit or with real fire. In the meanwhile the militant church will have to fight against all evil.

[peterstewart]

No one in the world can change truth. What we can do and should do is to seek truth and to serve it when we have found it. -St. Maximilian Kolbe

[bamasky]

One of my favorite interviews on PwA so far! ❤

[louise]

38.25 Dr Crete, thank you for your light. Everything you said here is profound. It summed up communion within ourselves with God and being the hands and feet of Jesus to the world. Thank you and sending prayers and love from Australia

[LostArchivist]

One thing I am surprised I do not hear more about from us Christians esp. Catholics, is that Christ became a fetus, an embryo, a zygote, a blastula, Christ, God became these and gave them dignity in that, He did so by His Baptism in the Jordan and for marriage at the Wedding Feast at Cana. This is in a different way from those but, He was there and took on these vulnerable stages as we all have. The Joyful Mysteries of the Rosary, really all five, but espescially these three are a school for how to answer the sexual revolution.

[dpalmer]

Hosea 2:16 %17 therefore I wil allure her to the desert & speak tenderly to her heart. There I will give her back her vineyards transform her valley troubles into a door of HOPE.

[Andrew-cjjz]

Gerry Crete should talk to Jonathan Pageau. The ideas about the multiplicity within a person needing to be brought into a harmonious and unified identity, without either the identity nor the multiple parts dominating or destroying the other is right in Pageau’s wheelhouse.